What Did Josef Mengele Have To Do During The Holocaust

Doctors for the most part are here to help us, make sure we feel better and that they are doing everything in their power to help us. However, that’s not always the case. During the Holocaust many experiments were done on the prisoners. The doctors were just simply doing what they were told, others were just evil and saw their chance to do what they want. One of those doctors included the ANgel of Death, Josef Mengele. Josef Mengele did numerous experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. Since he studied “under Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, who was a fully indoctrinated Nazi eugenicist”. Von Verschuer’s work rotated around hereditary which Mengele found really interesting. In May, 1943 after being injured during battle he was deployed and since he had connections he got a new work position, at Auschwitz. Soon after starting work at Auschwitz Mengele started a human experiment program and he personally selected prisoners. Along with doing what he did to the prisoners, he had a …show more content…
For example, he shot a mother and daughter because they wouldn’t separate and then sent the rest of the people who had arrived to be killed. Another time after a discussion with the other doctors at the sub-camp Birkenau that a little boy that they liked had tuberculosis, Mengele left for about two hours and apologized that he was wrong about him having tuberculosis. Mengele shot the boy and dissected him and found no sign of the disease. He not only did this but he also played a game with the children, The Daisy Game where he had children in cages with low voltages shooting threw them until their heart started to pulsate then pull out a daisy. He would pick the petals off and say, “I love you, I love you not” and if he got to the last petal and it was I love you not then the child would be skinned alive in front of the others and the next child will be